Description: Dieppe Raid participants and men and women who produced some of the equipment used in the attack attend a lunch party arranged by the Ministry of Supply. Purpose of party (introduced by Director-General of Royal Ordnance Factories, Sir Charles McClaren) is to enable fighters to congratulate workers on the excellent quality of the material they are producing, which they proceed to do with more emphasis than conviction. Workers feed questions to the raiders who give well rehearsed replies, framing their praise of individual bits of equipment (fighter seat, cannon-guns, trench mortars and toggle-ropes - "If we hadn't had toggle-ropes we would have been in a very sticky mess") between stories of their battle experiences at Dieppe. One soldier momentarily forgets himself and speaks of "the retreat" before he corrects this to "strategic withdrawal." Item stresses the community of purpose of soldier and worker in the war - "together we've got Jerry licked" - over a flashback to the Dieppe raid.
